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HSK
to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL: 個|个, , 項|项
HSK 1
to make; to manufacture
HSK 3
to call / to be called
HSK 2
movement; motion; action (CL:個|个) / to act; to move
HSK 1
to create; to produce; to write / a creative work; a creation
HSK 3
to operate / operations / workings / activities (usu. of an organization) / thread (computing)
HSK 6
to write / to compose / writing / written works
HSK 3
to write / literary work / book / article / writings / CL:
HSK 4
to work / to operate / to manipulate
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works
HSK 6
to cooperate; to collaborate; to work together
HSK 3
to hype / to promote (in the media)
HSK 6
to flare up; to break out
HSK 7-9
to change into / to turn into / to become
noncooperation
masterpiece
routine
to use for the purpose of / to serve as
to regard as / to treat as
cooperation / coordination
HSK 7-9
multithreading
to treat as / to regard as
HSK 6
to be called; to be known as
HSK 7-9
to join forces / to give full cooperation
to look upon as / to regard as
HSK 6
to change into / to turn into / to become
representative work (of an author or artist)
not to shrink from any crime (idiom); to commit any imaginable misdeed
HSK 7-9
to bestir oneself / to pull oneself together / to cheer up / to uplift / to stimulate
HSK 7-9
also written as
can be used for
seminal work that propels a writer (or artist, composer etc) to fame
normal operation / proper functioning
to pretend / to feign / to act a part
United Front (either of the two alliances between the Guomindang and the Communist Party, 1923-1927 and 1937-1945)
work / manual labor
masterpiece / fine piece of writing
(writing, drawing, calligraphy etc) to apply oneself to producing practice pieces / a practice piece; an exercise
to put effort into (work, farming, writing etc) / a masterpiece
covert activities (election rigging etc) / under-the-table manipulations / black operations
farming / crops
first publication; maiden work
filmmaking
deep plowing and careful cultivation
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *作* | 作* | *作
(bound form) worker / (bound form) workshop / (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
fake move or pass (sports) / feint
my unworthy manuscript (humble expr.) / my humble writing
to be called / to be known as
social work
improvisation
(old) spy; secret agent
to regard as / to view / to consider sth as / to treat as
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
to serve as / to be a substitute for
to have sth made to order
heart attack; to have a heart attack
to do one's work / to work on sb / to try to persuade sb
to liken to / to compare to
remote operation
masterpiece / famous work
signature move
(Tw) full-time work
contemptible / disgusting
coroner (old)
posthumous work
to make preparations
epileptic seizure
masonry workshop
farming
original works / original text / original author
to be abbreviated to / (followed by a verb) slightly
employment as sex worker / prostitution
affected / artificial
part-time work in which one works each day for a half-day, typically a morning or an afternoon
to write in the style of some author / to write as if from the mouth of sb / a pastiche
to consider erroneously / incorrectly attributed to sb
to telecommute; to work remotely
rotation of crops (to preserve fertility of soil)
the final work in the career of a composer, film director or architect etc
(cinema) slow motion
rice cultivation
your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific) / to erupt / to begin abruptly
cooperative education (Tw)
intensive farming
affected / artificial / to make / to manufacture
to feign / to pretend
Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), economic cooperation program between China and Vietnam
panic attack
unaffected (i.e. behaving naturally)
(slang) masterpiece
to set aside for; to keep as
to cut a long story short / a brief treatment of a complicated subject / fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter
a work in a classic style / a pastiche
pretension / affectation / putting on artificial airs
painting; picture
sequel
reflex action
to pretend / to feign

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